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Slowly does it as giant magnet goes underground at CERN

At 5:00 am GMT this morning Feb. 28, 2007, the heaviest piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector began a momentous journey into its experimental cavern, 100 meters underground at CERN, Geneva.

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